Learning from Others in Groups: Experiential Learning Approaches by Gary L. Cooper. Associated Business Press: London, 1978. Books are mostly printed from cover to cover, rarely written from cover to cover, and should scarcely ever be read from cover to cover: so runs the advice given to freshmen students on the first day of a training course in study techniques. Cooper’s book, a compilation of his papers (with some junior authors) first published between 1969 and 1978, clearly wasn’t written from cover to cover and, due to a number of lucunae in editing, this is apparent when one attempts to read from cover to cover. For example, reference in Chapter 2 to issues first presented “in an earlier article” is confusing when one notices the earlier article’s appearance-in the present volume as the concluding chapter. Yet exceptionally, to read from cover to cover is very well worth while, particularly if one is a memberof the target audience of “training officers and personnel specialists in industry and the public sector” and wishes to expand an initial awareness of experiential training group methods. Whether the book is quite as useful to members or the remaining audience: “teachers and students of group work” is debatable, depending partly on their access to the original journals and texts, among which art Human Relations. Psychological Reports. British Journal of Social Work, and Interpersonal Development. The book begins'with a very short account of the objectives of T-groups and other forms of experiential learning methods: the absence of detailed examples of each (as was done usefully iri Lieberman et al.), probably limits the helpfulness of the book to those who have participated in, or have previously read something about, such learning experiences. (Chapter 7, which presents an interesting case study of particular relevance to managers as part of a four-chapter description of occupational applications, conveys the flavour of only one kind of experience).